Sergey Kovalev’s return from his second defeat to Andre Ward was a success in and out of the ring. According to ratings released Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research, a peak audience of 900,000 viewers...Read More

Sergey Kovalev Video Interview - Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev regained his WBO Light Heavyweight World Title in classic Krusher fashion with a second round stoppage of Vyacheslav Shabranskyy at the Theate...Read More

Sergey Kovalev isn’t back. He never went anywhere. About half the people reading this probably were in the camp that thought he won the first fight with Andre Ward. The stoppage finish of the rematch ...Read More

Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev regained his WBO light heavyweight world title in classic Krusher fashion with a second round stoppage of Vyacheslav Shabranskyy at the Theater at Madison Square Garden and li...Read More

Kovalev lost his last two outings to Andre Ward, and he brought a dynamic fury into the Madison Square Garden ring. He dropped Shabranskyy twice in the first round, once more in the second, and someho...Read More

By Keith Idec - NEW YORK – Sergey Kovalev showed Saturday night that he remains an elite light heavyweight. The former light heavyweight champion emphatically came back from his technical-knockout def...Read More

Kovalev vs. Shabranskyy WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol has hit New York City as HBO Sports celebrates the holiday weekend with an action-packed tripleheader, including the return of light...Read More

NEW YORK – LeShawn Rodriquez continued the impressive start to his pro career Saturday night on the Sergey Kovalev-Vyacheslav Shabranskyy undercard. The 24-year-old Rodriguez, a middleweight prospect ...Read More

NEW YORK – Maybe it’s because Vyacheslav Shabranskyy knows Andre Ward was the best boxer in the world at that time. Perhaps it’s because he has lost a bout by knockout, too, and thus realizes it can h...Read More

Dmitry Bivol is very familiar with Vyacheslav Shabranskyy. They sparred numerous rounds against each other recently in preparation for Bivol’s victory over Trent Broadhurst on November 4 in Monte Carl...Read More

One year ago at this time, Sergey Kovalev was a week from his first loss, convinced he was really still undefeated. Saturday night (HBO, 10 PM EST), Kovalev enters knowing he was defeated for the firs...Read More

NEW YORK – Bernard Hopkins was right. Kathy Duva joked during a press conference Wednesday at Madison Square Garden that she couldn’t believe she was admitting that publicly. But Sergey Kovalev’s prom...Read More

Sergey Kovalev and his opponent Saturday night, Vyacheslav Shabranskyy, are both punchers. So not many people expect the 12-round WBO light heavyweight title fight to go the distance at Madison Square...Read More

This Saturday night from the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, Vyacheslav Shabranskyy faces Sergey Kovalev as the main event of an HBO televised tripleheader from the Theater in New York's...Read More

NEW YORK – Sullivan Barrera knows as well as anyone that Vyacheslav Shabranskyy can punch. Barrera doesn’t think the Ukrainian light heavyweight contender is as big a puncher as Joe Smith Jr. – who, l...Read More

Former unified light heavyweight world champion Sergei Kovalev is only a few days away from his opportunity to reclaim a piece of the championship puzzle in 175-pounds. Kovalev, or Russia, will Ukrain...Read More